[BikerNYC]

The arguement you make about one religion being made superior to another however holds NO constitutional validity. Once again I remind you that a passage of law by congress or a state, with respect to the establishment of a religion or repression of an individual's right to practice it, is the minimum trigger for a first ammendment violation or invocation of the equal protection clause.

The state is passing a law that establishes a certain kind of religion (one that prays) when it mandates prayer in the schools. It is favoring that (or those) religions over others. You must be aware that it would be unlawful for the state to permit Christians to take off work from their state jobs on Christian holiday, but forbid Jews from taking off Jewish holidays. That would be favoring one religion over the other.

[DCBurgess58]

What the heck passage of of law are you talking about? I only see judicial legislative fiat based on a clear misreading of the 14th ammendment. Since no laws were enacted by Congress or the states in the first place ALL these separation of church and state cases are themselves unconstitutional. It is the job of the Congress to create law and the job of the judiciary to ENFORCE law. The activist courts have been overly busy trying to redefine the meaning of the constitution and are effectivly created new legislation. This new legislation (this really started in the 1920's and poked along until the 1960's when it became a steamroller) uses previous court decisions to expand it's judgements. The founding fathers would soil their breeches if they could see what an out of control monster the judicial branch has become.

[DCBurgess58]

By the way, lets be clear about this... there was NO passage of law mandating school prayer prior to the courts declaring school prayer unconstitutional. That is precisely where the courts started legislating. Since that time there have been legislative attempts to overrule the courts.

P.S. I don't really care about prayer in school, to me it's just one of many separation of church and state issues where the court's have twisted the founding fathers intent.